1848+: Last and First Men

http://www.alternet.org/story/146611/
Taibbi: The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the
Economy
By Matt Taibbi, The Guardian
Posted on April 26, 2010, Printed on April 26, 2010

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http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=1613
The Enterprise of Nations
by David S. Landes
Critics have tried to explain away the West’s centuries- long economic domination of the globe; they would do better to study its lessons.
Western entrepreneurship and technological progress go back centuries and have changed the world for the better. That, at least, is one assessment of the historical record— [...]

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The Non-Existent Hand
Joseph Stiglitz
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky
Allen Lane, 213 pp, £20.00, September 2009, ISBN 978 1 84614 258 1
It has become a commonplace to say, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, that ‘we are all Keynesians now.’ If this is [...]

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http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2036
Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
— Howard Brick
The New Spirit of Capitalism
by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
translated by Gregory Elliott
Verso Books 2006, paperback edition 2007, 656 pages, $39.95.

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Behind Closed Doors
An Economy Without Firewalls
By ALAN FARAGO
More than two years after Wall Street’s closest brush with death since the Great Depression, taxpayers, investors and voters are still waiting for the kind of bare knuckles Congressional action like the Pecora Hearings in the 1930s that resulted in federal legislation creating basic firewalls within the [...]

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Bourgeois and Marxist economics

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Formulas built in myth
In the history of ideas, strong images like clocks or markets have helped, and hindered, thinking
Mary Midgley The Guardian, Saturday 15 August 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/aug/15/einstein-darwin-mary-midgley

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Troubled Cuba Mulls ‘A Different Kind’ Of Socialism

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How Bad Will the Economy Get? Really, Really Bad
By Thomas Greco, Jr., AlterNet
Posted on July 14, 2009, Printed on July 14, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/141281/
Historically, every financial and economic crisis has been used to
further centralize power and concentrate wealth. This one is no
different, and in fact the moves being promoted by the Obama
administration and the central banks of [...]

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http://www.marxmail.org/msg64557.html
… have completed adding Hilferding’s ‘Finance Capital’ to the Marxist Internet Archive.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/hilferding/1910/finkap/index.htm
The archive also carries Kautsky’s review of the book:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1911/xx/finance.htm
… Kautsky’s article on Hilferding’s mistake on money (translated by MIAer Daniel Guido) …
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1912/xx/gpcc.htm
… and Lenin’s notes on the book:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/ni-theta/hilferd.htm
Happy Bastille Day reading …

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